Topic: Jumping large gaps

[Adam "Echo" C]

Is there a specific technique to jumping forward over a gap onto an object the same height as your starting point?

[Pave_the_Planet]

Same as doing a standing broad jump.

[bioobird]

if your running, you want to throw your non jumping leg up HARD and your arms up HARD those two things + whatever power you have + how fast your running + how well you can block =


look at the frame right as i leave the block. my knee is high my arms are up... anything you can do to generate energy, will make you fly farther, but obviously we all have different physical limits but thats the easiest way to maximize what you got.

[David Boyle]

if your running, you want to throw your non jumping leg up HARD and your arms up HARD those two things + whatever power you have + how fast your running + how well you can block =


look at the frame right as i leave the block. my knee is high my arms are up... anything you can do to generate energy, will make you fly farther, but obviously we all have different physical limits but thats the easiest way to maximize what you got.

Those are some sick jumps dude....nice work.

[Patrick Yang]

(1) Make sure you can do it without a gap.
(2) Work up to it, if need be, to get the mental fortitude.
(3) Make sure you know the technique of in a saut de bras very well, in case you miss it.
(4) Commit!

[bioobird]

(3) Make sure you know the technique of in a saut de bras very well, in case you miss it.

that sounds like something i should ask about. is that some way to prevent smashing your shins on a ledge?

[Dan Frank]

(3) Make sure you know the technique of in a saut de bras very well, in case you miss it.

that sounds like something i should ask about. is that some way to prevent smashing your shins on a ledge?

A saut de bras is a cat leap... it would be to stop yourself from falling quite a few feet to the ground between whatever two things you're jumping between. As in, you underbalance and fall, but you might be able to catch the wall and be in the cat leap/saut de bras position. That's what you meant, Patrick, right?

[Patrick Yang]

A saut de bras is a cat leap... it would be to stop yourself from falling quite a few feet to the ground between whatever two things you're jumping between. As in, you underbalance and fall, but you might be able to catch the wall and be in the cat leap/saut de bras position. That's what you meant, Patrick, right?

That's correct.

[bioobird]

ohhh now i understandd

[max eisenberg]

i dont see what was so confusing about his post...?

[bioobird]

i dont see what was so confusing about his post...?

he was explaining what the french terminology meant.

do you have to talk shit on EVERY post?